After Today (1975) David Bowie + lyrics

Text below from Pushing Ahead of the Dame: https://www.google.com/amp/s/bowiesongs.wordpress.com/2010/10/14/after-today/amp/

"'After Today' is typical of the freewheeling Sigma sessions, as it was tried out both as a slow, moody ballad and as an uptempo piece, with a take of the latter version eventually released on Bowie’s career retrospective Sound + Vision (the decision seemed to be Rykodisc’s, who preferred the faster take).

"Bowie’s decision to sing much of 'After Today' in falsetto turned out to be overly ambitious, and likely doomed the song to being an outtake, but 'After Today' remains a showcase for Andy Newmark’s drumming. Newmark, who was a replacement behind the kit for both Sly and The Family Stone and Roxy Music, had started out in a ten-piece soul band. His playing was so dynamic that, at an impromptu audition, he got the wasted Sly Stone out of his bed and dancing. Newmark often played a stripped-down kit—a bass drum, snare, hi-hat and one cymbal doing double-duty as a ride and crash—and got a sharp, cracking sound via a tightened snare head and by constantly hitting rim-shots. He once described his sound as being 'either super low or super high—super bottom or super top. Everything cuts through the band. The bass drum and the floor tom are like volcanos.' An earlier take of 'After Today,' which turned up on the 'Shilling the Rubes' tape, has a ferocious 4-bar intro by Newmark that could have kicked off a punk song."

David Bowie – vocals, guitar, keyboards
Carlos Alomar – guitars
Mike Garson – piano
David Sanborn – saxophone
Willie Weeks – bass guitar
Andy Newmark – drums
Earl Slick – guitars

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